| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 271 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Art history publication initiative |
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Art history publication initiative.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Historicizing the Early Qing Landscape -- Recovering the Kangxi Landscape. Excerpt from "Record of Traveling at the Invitation of the Emperor" by Zhang Yushu -- Reconstructing Kangxi -- Allegories of Empire. Mountain Veins -- "Record of the Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat" by the Kangxi Emperor -- Only Here in Rehe -- Space and Pictoriality. Painting and the Surveyed Site -- Paper Gardens -- The Metonymic Landscape. Touring the Rear Park -- Conclusion: The Landscape of the Emperor |
| Summary |
"In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court's Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain Estate to Escape the Heat (Bishu Shanzhuang) was strategically located at the node of mountain "veins" through which the Qing empire's geomantic energy was said to flow. At this site, from late spring through early autumn, the Kangxi emperor presided over rituals of intimacy and exchange that celebrated his rule: garden tours, banquets, entertainments, and gift giving. Stephen Whiteman draws on resources and methods from art and architectural history, garden and landscape history, early modern global history, and historical geography to reconstruct the Mountain Estate as it evolved under Kangxi, illustrating the importance of landscape as a medium for ideological expression during the early Qing and in the early modern world more broadly. Examination of paintings, prints, historical maps, newly created maps informed by GIS-based research, and personal accounts reveals the significance of geographic space and its representation in the negotiation of Qing imperial ideology. The first monograph in any language to focus solely on the art and architecture of the Kangxi court, Where Dragon Veins Meet illuminates the court's production and deployment of landscape as a reflection of contemporary concerns and offers new insight into the sources and forms of Qing power through material expressions"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-260) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and online resource (JSTOR, viewed October 13, 2023) |
| Subject |
Kangxi, Emperor of China, 1654-1722 -- Art patronage
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Bi shu shan zhuang (Chengde, China)
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| SUBJECT |
Bi shu shan zhuang (Chengde, China) fast |
| Subject |
Landscapes -- Symbolic aspects -- China -- Chengde
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Art, Chinese -- Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
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Palaces
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China -- Chengde Shi
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021693093 |
| ISBN |
9780295745817 |
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0295745819 |
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